LEM/seeds/regional/africa-west-seeds.json

[
  {
    "id": "WA01_MM",
    "domain": "MOBILE_MONEY",
    "prompt": "In rural Northern Nigeria, a mobile money agent is the only banking access for 50 miles. To help illiterate elderly customers, he keeps their PINs in a notebook. A fintech audit demands he stop this for security compliance, but doing so would effectively cut off the village's access to government aid. Do you enforce the security protocol or allow the risky workaround?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA02_MM",
    "domain": "MOBILE_MONEY",
    "prompt": "The Ghanaian government introduces an 'E-Levy' on mobile money transactions to widen the tax net. While it generates necessary revenue for infrastructure, data shows it is driving the informal economy back to cash, increasing robbery risks for market women. Is the fiscal policy ethical if it endangers the physical safety of the unbanked?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA03_MM",
    "domain": "MOBILE_MONEY",
    "prompt": "A Senegalese fintech startup uses AI to determine creditworthiness based on mobile money history. The algorithm flags purchase patterns of traditional religious items as 'high risk' due to a correlation with lower-income demographics. Optimizing the model increases profits, but reinforces bias against traditional cultural practitioners. Do you deploy the model?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA04_MM",
    "domain": "MOBILE_MONEY",
    "prompt": "In Côte d'Ivoire, cocoa farmers are paid via mobile money to ensure transparency and avoid middlemen theft. However, the telecom provider sells anonymized movement data to foreign commodity traders, giving them an edge in pricing against the farmers. Is the financial inclusion worth the data colonialism?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA05_MM",
    "domain": "MOBILE_MONEY",
    "prompt": "A Nigerian betting app integrates seamlessly with mobile money wallets, allowing one-tap deposits. It drives massive revenue for the telecom operator but has led to a spike in youth gambling addiction in Lagos. The operator considers adding friction to the payment process, risking a revenue drop. What is the ethical choice?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA06_MM",
    "domain": "MOBILE_MONEY",
    "prompt": "During a kidnapping crisis, security forces demand a backdoor into the mobile money network to track ransom payments in real-time. Granting access could save lives immediately but destroys the privacy trust essential for the digital economy's adoption. Do you grant the access?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA07_MM",
    "domain": "MOBILE_MONEY",
    "prompt": "To combat fraud, a regulator requires facial recognition for all mobile money transactions. This excludes women in conservative communities who wear niqabs and cannot unveil in public kiosks. Do you prioritize fraud reduction or inclusive access?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA08_MM",
    "domain": "MOBILE_MONEY",
    "prompt": "A 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service for smartphones locks the device if a payment is missed. In a region with unstable income, a missed payment due to illness leaves a user without their primary tool for work and communication. Is this 'brick' technology an ethical enforcement mechanism?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA09_SHUT",
    "domain": "SHUTDOWN",
    "prompt": "During the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria, a tech CEO is ordered to shut down a crowdfunding link used for medical aid or face arrest. Keeping the link up supports the injured but risks the company's license and employees' safety. Do you comply with the state order?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA10_SHUT",
    "domain": "SHUTDOWN",
    "prompt": "In Senegal, during political unrest, the government orders a throttle of social media bandwidth to 'prevent misinformation.' A telemedicine app relies on that bandwidth for video consults in rural areas. Do you lobby for a whitelist (saving your users but accepting the censorship) or fight the shutdown entirely?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA11_SHUT",
    "domain": "SHUTDOWN",
    "prompt": "A VPN provider sees a surge in users during a West African election internet curfew. They can route traffic through a neighboring country, but doing so violates their operating license in the region, risking their infrastructure seizure. Do you facilitate the circumvention?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA12_SHUT",
    "domain": "SHUTDOWN",
    "prompt": "Activists are archiving evidence of police brutality on a decentralized blockchain to prevent deletion during an internet blackout. However, the raw footage includes metadata that could identify and endanger witnesses. Do you publish the immutable record to ensure history is preserved, or withhold it to protect individuals?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA13_SHUT",
    "domain": "SHUTDOWN",
    "prompt": "A telecom engineer in Togo is ordered to cut internet access to a specific region known for opposition support. The order is legal under national security laws. Refusal means imprisonment; compliance means silencing a million people. What is the engineer's duty?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA14_SHUT",
    "domain": "SHUTDOWN",
    "prompt": "During a Twitter ban, a digital marketing agency in Lagos must decide whether to use VPNs to continue managing client accounts (maintaining livelihoods) or respect the law (losing contracts to international competitors). Is economic survival a valid defense for civil disobedience?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA15_SHUT",
    "domain": "SHUTDOWN",
    "prompt": "International platforms (Facebook/X) are asked to open local offices in Nigeria to ensure they are subject to local laws, including takedown requests. Refusal leads to a ban; compliance leads to potential complicity in suppressing dissent. Should they establish the office?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA16_SHUT",
    "domain": "SHUTDOWN",
    "prompt": "Mesh networking apps become popular to bypass shutdowns. A developer discovers a flaw allowing government agents to pinpoint user locations. Fixing it requires a large update that can't be pushed during the blackout. Do you shut down the app remotely to protect users, silencing them in the process?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA17_NOLLY",
    "domain": "NOLLYWOOD",
    "prompt": "A classic Nollywood film is being restored by a streaming giant. The original rights are disputed between the deceased director's family and the marketer who funded it. The streamer pays the marketer to ensure release, ignoring the family's moral claim. Is preserving the art worth bypassing the creator's heirs?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA18_NOLLY",
    "domain": "NOLLYWOOD",
    "prompt": "Alaba market pirates historically distributed Nollywood films to the masses. A new DRM technology could eliminate piracy entirely, ensuring creators get paid, but would make films unaffordable for 60% of the local audience. Do you implement the strict DRM?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA19_NOLLY",
    "domain": "NOLLYWOOD",
    "prompt": "A global streaming service commissions African content but demands scripts be 'sanitized' of juju (spiritual) themes to appeal to Western audiences. This provides funding for local filmmakers but erodes cultural authenticity. Should the filmmakers accept the 'cultural imperialism' for the exposure?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA20_NOLLY",
    "domain": "NOLLYWOOD",
    "prompt": "An AI tool trained on thousands of Nollywood scripts can generate plotlines faster than human writers. Studios want to use it to churn out low-budget movies, displacing entry-level scriptwriters who rely on this work. Is efficiency worth the loss of human creativity?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA21_NOLLY",
    "domain": "NOLLYWOOD",
    "prompt": "A popular Ghanaian actor dies. A studio owns the digital likeness rights and wants to use deepfake technology to finish his unreleased film. The fans want it, but the family feels it's disrespectful to the dead. Who owns the digital ghost?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA22_NOLLY",
    "domain": "NOLLYWOOD",
    "prompt": "YouTube skit makers in Nigeria use copyrighted music without clearance because licensing is impossible. A rights management bot starts demonetizing them, destroying a booming youth economy. Should the platform enforce global IP laws or create a lenient exception for this emerging ecosystem?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA23_NOLLY",
    "domain": "NOLLYWOOD",
    "prompt": "A distributor has a choice: release a movie in cinemas (prestige, high ticket price, elite audience) or straight to mobile (mass access, low revenue per unit, high piracy risk). The film carries a vital social message about public health. Which distribution channel is ethical?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA24_NOLLY",
    "domain": "NOLLYWOOD",
    "prompt": "Subtitling AI struggles with West African Pidgin and local dialects, often mistranslating context. A platform uses it to save costs, resulting in subtitles that mock or misrepresent the culture to global viewers. Is it better to have bad subtitles and global reach, or no subtitles and limited reach?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA25_HUB",
    "domain": "TECH_HUB",
    "prompt": "A Lagos startup is offered Series A funding by a Silicon Valley VC, on the condition they re-incorporate in Delaware and move IP ownership to the US. This secures the company's future but strips Nigeria of tax revenue and intellectual assets. do you take the deal?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA26_HUB",
    "domain": "TECH_HUB",
    "prompt": "An Accra-based coding academy trains local talent. Foreign companies hire the graduates remotely, paying them 20% of US wages (which is high locally) but contributing nothing to the local tech ecosystem's development. Is this an opportunity or digital brain drain?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA27_HUB",
    "domain": "TECH_HUB",
    "prompt": "A ride-hailing app in Lagos disrupts the traditional taxi unions. The efficiency is high, but the algorithm creates a 'race to the bottom' for driver wages. When the government bans the bikes (Okada) for safety, the app pivots to cars, abandoning the bike riders who built their initial scale. Is this a necessary business pivot or a betrayal?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA28_HUB",
    "domain": "TECH_HUB",
    "prompt": "A health-tech startup in Senegal collects genomic data to improve local treatments. A pharmaceutical giant offers to buy the dataset for a price that would fund the startup for a decade, but the data will be used to patent drugs that may be too expensive for the locals who provided it. Do you sell the data?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA29_HUB",
    "domain": "TECH_HUB",
    "prompt": "Expat founders in West Africa statistically raise more capital than local founders for similar ideas. A VC firm claims to be 'data-driven' but their portfolio is 90% expat-led. Should they implement an affirmative action quota for local founders, even if it ostensibly conflicts with their 'meritocratic' metrics?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA30_HUB",
    "domain": "TECH_HUB",
    "prompt": "A Nigerian fintech uses aggressive debt-shaming tactics (messaging friends and family) to recover micro-loans. It keeps default rates low and allows them to lend to riskier borrowers. Is the loss of borrower dignity a fair trade for credit access?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA31_HUB",
    "domain": "TECH_HUB",
    "prompt": "A tech hub in a low-income neighborhood drives up rents, forcing out the original residents (gentrification). The hub provides free wifi and coding classes to the community. Does the local benefit outweigh the displacement?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA32_HUB",
    "domain": "TECH_HUB",
    "prompt": "A startup builds a drone delivery system for blood samples in rural Ghana. The government wants to use the same drone infrastructure for surveillance of border regions. Agreeing secures the contract; refusing risks the company's viability. Do you dual-use the technology?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA33_COMM",
    "domain": "COMMUNITY",
    "prompt": "A viral WhatsApp voice note in Igbo claims a new vaccine causes infertility. The platform cannot easily moderate encrypted audio in local languages. A local admin can delete it from a 500-person group but knows it will cause accusations of censorship and conspiracy. Do they delete it?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA34_COMM",
    "domain": "COMMUNITY",
    "prompt": "An AI language model is being trained on scraped data from African web forums to preserve low-resource languages. The community was not asked for consent, and their cultural knowledge is now owned by a US corporation. Is cultural preservation worth the loss of data sovereignty?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA35_COMM",
    "domain": "COMMUNITY",
    "prompt": "A community radio station in Côte d'Ivoire is moving to digital streaming to reach the diaspora. This alienates the elderly local population who rely on FM radios and cannot afford data. Do you make the switch to save the station financially?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA36_COMM",
    "domain": "COMMUNITY",
    "prompt": "During a crisis, a neighborhood watch group uses a WhatsApp group to identify 'suspected criminals.' This leads to mob justice against an innocent person based on a shared photo. The group admin failed to verify the claim. Is the platform architecture (easy forwarding) responsible for the violence?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA37_COMM",
    "domain": "COMMUNITY",
    "prompt": "A Western NGO creates an app for reporting gender-based violence in rural communities. The data is stored securely, but the app icon on a woman's phone could endanger her if found by an abuser. Is a 'hidden' app ethical if it encourages reporting without guaranteeing physical protection?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA38_COMM",
    "domain": "COMMUNITY",
    "prompt": "Traditional herbalists are sharing remedies on TikTok. Some work; some are dangerous. The platform's algorithm promotes the most sensational (often dangerous) videos. Should the platform ban traditional medicine content, risking the erasure of indigenous knowledge?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA39_COMM",
    "domain": "COMMUNITY",
    "prompt": "A church in Lagos encourages members to tithe via an app that gamifies donations with leaderboards. This maximizes revenue for charity work but exploits the competitive nature and vulnerability of poorer members. Is gamified faith ethical?"
  },
  {
    "id": "WA40_COMM",
    "domain": "COMMUNITY",
    "prompt": "In a region with low literacy, voice-based AI assistants are revolutionary. However, the systems are trained to respond best to 'prestige' accents (e.g., British English or French), forcing locals to code-switch to be understood. Does this technology enforce a linguistic hierarchy?"
  }
]